Hi Adam, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 2. April 2003, 08:31:37:
>> | I was just wondering about the state of support for Serial ATA in Linux >> | at the moment. I'm looking at a board with a Serial ATA controller on, >> | will be be supported? >> >> You can be 100% sure, that it will be supported, Serial ATA is the next >> generation IDE standard, which will take over the current IDE standard >> fairly quick, imo. >> >> The 2.5.xx kernel series has already some (maybe experimental) support >> for it, AFAIK. Correct me, if I was wrong, please :) > So its not supported at the moment in the 2.4.x series? Can anyone > confirm this? AFAIK there is no difference in protocol between serial and parallel ata, its just a matter of cable format (there are adaptors). The only problem is support for chipsets that support serial ata, but thats the same problem as with parallel ata and ata-raid. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
